On 20 Jan 2008, at 21:28, Dmitry Turin wrote:
> DD> Lynx is a browser. Lynx does not support JavaScript.
> It cover very little part of population.
> To my mind, it's anachronism.
To my mind it is a small, fast, useful tool.
>>> should download css before parsing html.
> DD> Why?
>
> To get benefit of proposal.
But CSS is supposed to be an optional presentational layer. The
operative word should be "may" not "should".
> DD> You still haven't provided any examples.
>
> I have no statistics.
I asked for examples, not statistics.
>>>>> Nothing disturb author to write in previous manner.
>>> DD> Initial authors perhaps, but not maintainers who have to find
>>> out
>>> DD> where the previous author decided to put the information.
> DD> URIs that are being linked to,
>
> These are places with unique information -
> they will remain in htm-file.
Your proposal would allow them to appear in the stylesheet.
> DD> This would include expansions of acronyms,
> DD> language the document is written in
>
> If acronym are in several places of document,
> it's reasonable to put its expansion into css.
> If language are the same for several documents,
> it's reasonable to put it into css.
No, it isn't, because those pieces of data are about meaning not style.
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David Dorward
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